Egg Spread
Origin: Clarksville, Tennessee
Source: Martha McCulloch-Williams, 1913
Ingredients
- mashed potato
- eggs
- salt
- pepper
- butter
Instructions
- Spread a flat pan an inch deep with rich mashed potato. Sprinkle with pepper and salt.
- For hard-boiled eggs: Cover the top with halved hard-boiled eggs, placed yolk-side up. Put salt, pepper, and butter on each yolk. Bake ten minutes in a warm oven.
- For soft-boiled eggs: Make depressions in the potato with the back of a spoon. Break an egg into each depression, dust with pepper and salt, add a dot of butter, and bake five minutes.
- For browned potatoes: Bake the potatoes for ten minutes after making the depressions, then put in the eggs and bake soft or hard as preferred.